Dare to Care – From Seeking Certainty to Embracing Unconditonal Love
By Dr Anna Pittman
There is something quite dramatic that occurs when we drop the habitual energetic, albeit clumsy ‘reach’ that we learned as children with our caretakers. This reach for certainty and connection. However it came to be for each of us, we all figured out how to act, what to do to ascertain that our presence is valuable, essential, and that we are lovable and vital. When we deeply feel this and withdraw this entangled way that we learned to desperately establish a connection, we can slowly – sometimes quickly - begin to see how incredibly outdated these strategies can be. Now, the masterful and well-rehearsed management skills of the ego are seen.
If we were to drop the incessant urge to fix or please or perform,
that even say, ‘yes, I deserve to exist,’
we have the opportunity to fall,
just like a floating feather in the air,
out of the false and predictable
into the timeless Dimension of Care.
Strategies to gain love certainly are well intend…
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